why on earth would you waste time with another monstrosity like that? For world of tanks?
Inventory Survivability of Tiger II was 50% in 1944/45, when the same figure for the Panther was 44%.
Further Jag Tiger & Tiger II in 1944 represented 30,240t AFV construction tonnage and another 27448t armor. Which built 377 T-2 & 61 JT , which represents ~ 188 T-2 & 61 JT in the 1944/45 inventory.
Had that same tonnage been added to the Panther production tonnage, it should have increased the numbers by 4851 through 1944, instead of 3799 historical build. Given inventory survivability that is 2135 vs 1671 or 464 more Panthers in inventory compared to 249 more tigers
If you by pass all 1944 Tigers and increase the Panther production from 3799 to 6233; with inventory numbers swelling from 1671 Panthers & 390 Tigers to 2743 Panthers.
About a 1/3 increase in heavy tanks in the inventory.
Not going to change much but if you applied this across the tank fleet using a high low mix you could end up with 7559 Panthers plus 10,000 Hetzer type StuG and possibly as many as 15,000 Pz-IV.
The end of year Inventory survival should leave you with ~ 5100 Pz-IV +3326 Panthers & 5000-7000 Hetzers
The main merit of Tiger and Tiger II tanks was the disruption of the Soviet wartime production. Would Soviet produce more T-34 and IS tanks instead of specialized SU-152 and ISU-152 SPGs (production number of which were inflated to create heavy tank destroyer battalions), the war would end sooner, even with larger number of Panther tanks on German side.
Also, some small improvements to Tiger were possible:
1) Scrap from beginning anti-magnetic mine coating (faster initial production)
2) Do not ramp up production of Tiger series beyond 200-300 vehicles for entire war, maintaining higher armour quality and deterrent role just enough to force mass deployment of ISU-152.
3) Additional clamps/brackets on back to carry infantry outside of armour (meat shield). Will improve survivability of tank crews and will ultimately lower total casualties due better experienced crews.
4) Smoke generator - i did not find any record mentioning Tiger series had smoke generator?
Overall, Tiger tank was not very effective in killing. But it had the potential to be used as terror device, sending much superior enemy forces into panic flight by the reputation of the invulnerability and deadliness.